Packetslave

# Deployment uses SFTP by default when you use deploy_via :copy, and there
# doesn't seem to be any way to configure it.  Unfortunately, we don't run
# SFTP on our servers, so it fails.  This forces it to use SCP instead.
# http://www.capify.org/index.php/OverridingTaskCommands
#
module UseScpForDeployment
  def self.included(base)
    base.send(:alias_method, :old_upload, :upload)
    base.send(:alias_method, :upload,     :new_upload)
  end

Packetslave

namespace :minifier do
  JAR = "/Users/blanders/MyDocs/Library/yuicompressor.jar"
  
  def minify(files)
    files.each do |file|
      next if file =~ /\.min\.(js|css)/
      
      minfile = file.sub(/\.js$/, ".min.js").sub(/\.css$/, ".min.css")

      cmd = "java -jar #{JAR} #{file} -o #{minfile}"